Spitfire Audio
Speculative Memories £29
Knitting ethereal vocal textures, evolving atmospherics and swelling bass throbs, Speculative Memories opens vast avenues for sonic introspection
Unlike orchestral themes of old, modern soundtracking largely works around more subtle atmosphere-enhancing approach. What we now recognise as a film’s main theme tends to co-exist among other elements, skittering across a sea of evolving textures. Half-formed fragments of melody are just one consideration of this sound-design-adjacent attitude.
It’s one such abstract-minded composer that Spitfire have collaborated with to helm Speculative Memories, a sumptuous new suite of cinematic textures and electroacoustic instruments. The composer in question, Yair
Elazar Glotman, has recently written an album by the same title (released, aptly, on Spitfire’s SA Recordings). A beautiful work, Glotman’s LP shows the lush potential of his more outré approach, revolving around double-bass, vocals and modular synth, which this suite presents in fully playable and modifiable glory.